Claiming Our Place: Local Women Matter in Natural Resource Development

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Claiming Our Place: Local Women Matter in Natural Resource Development

Author(s)Gail Baikie and Libby Dean

Year of publication2015

Research Theme / CommunityHappy Valley-Goose Bay, NL

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An overview of the Claiming Our Place project, which gathered local women in Happy Valley – Goose Bay, Labrador (NL) to explore the impacts of the Lower Churchill River hydroelectric project.

Overview

An overview of the Claiming Our Place project, which gathered local women in Happy Valley – Goose Bay, Labrador (NL) to build relationships across cultural lines and around the shared impacts introduced by the Lower Churchill River hydroelectric development project. The project used a participatory action framework alongside the Creative Action Circles process (developed from indigenous knowledge and practices) to uncover women's concerns and then express these concerns using artistic means.

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